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Fred, the Spooder Prince

Fred, the Spooder prince is doing very well. Once I worked out that he was a fussy eater and only ate green bottles, he started thriving. He still hasn't built himself a molting hammock yet, and I'm starting to wonder if he ever will - it may be that he is a mature male already (although he seems a little small for that). At the moment I've taken to putting a caster into his food bowl as soon as they arrive, so that as soon as it hatches he can be on the prowl. He seems to like that.
But he is exploring well, eating well, and getting used to being handled - although that really depends on what mood you catch him in. Like Wilma, he likes to disappear up my sleeves.
I have bought him some additional decorations for his little house - A coffin to serve as a hide, and some resin skulls which I scattered around his enclosure to match his castle. I guess he is now the Spooder Prince of Darkness?
I was able to get these cute little skulls from Etsy shop The Spooder Corner. The do all sorts of things from glow in the dark bunnies, to mini resin cactus plants, and Victorian lamp posts, all to go in your spiders enclosure. I can wholeheartedly recommend them for decorating your enclosures.
The skulls were a little on the large side compared to the scale of my castle, but to be honest, I don't care about that. I just think they're cute. And since Fred barely ever sits on his castle, the decor is for my benefit. I think it looks pretty cool though:
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